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Where does “avoueur” come from?

avoueur (French) comes from French avouer, from Old French avoer, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en, from Proto-Italic en — in.

avoueur (French): confessor

Definitions

  1. confessor

Ancestry of “avoueur”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchavouerto avow; to confess; to approve
2Old Frenchavoer—
3Latinadvocō—
4Latinad-to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it...
5Latinīn-—
6Latinîn—
7Latinenlookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ
8Proto-Italicenin
9Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
Every word from Proto-Indo-European h₁én →